FYI: Tru64 with gcc patch [WAS Re: [ANNOUNCE] libtool-1.3d]

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Wednesday 04 April 2001 10:38 pm, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [ANNOUNCE] libtool-1.3d, Gary V. Vaughan said (at 3:42am 
on...:
> >* Improved support for darwin (rhapsody), mingw32, NetBSD, Compaq Tru64
> > V5.0 and Digital Unix V4.*.
>
> I like that others have been working on improved support for Tru64/Digital
> UNIX, but I think there may be a problem with one of the changes:
>
>
> 2000-10-30  Aneesh Kumar K.V <address@hidden>
>
>     * libtool.m4 (archive_expsym_cmds):  Support for -export-symbol
>     option on Tru64.
>     (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Fixed cxx throwing error while using
>     libtool.  Done by passing -rpath directlty to the compiler.
>
>
> This is fine for both cc and cxx, but last time I checked, gcc didn't
> support `-rpath' -- it expects to feed it to the linker via -Wl,-rpath.
>
> The problem is that the change to hardcode_libdir_flag_spec affects both
> when using gcc and when not.  I don't use gcc on Tru64 (it works, but
> doesn't produce code comparable to the vendor compiler), but a lot of
> people do.  My guess is this change will break gcc support.

Agreed.  Thanks for the heads up.  

I have applied the attached to HEAD (and similar to ltcf-c.sh in MLB).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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